1994 VHS Something Strong Within Robert Nakamira Internment Camp Japanese. "Something Strong Within" is a video production created for the exhibition, "America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience," featuring never-before-seen home movies of the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II "Despite the lonliness and despair that enveloped us, we made the best we could with the situation. i hope when you look at these you see the spirit of the people; people trying to reconstruct a community despite overwhelming obstacles. This, I feel, is the essence of these home movies. -Dave tatsuno, home movie maker. "There is such beauty and power in this film. If you haven't seen it, you must, and then you must see it againa dn again. Like peeling an onion, each viewing reveals layers and layers of the new insights." -Tozai Times, December 1994 "Courage is something strong within you that brings out the best in a person. Perhaps no one else may know or see, but it's those hidden things unknown to others, that reveals a person to God and self." -Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama, diary entry: May 3, 1942 -from the VHS cover Created by the award-winning team of Karen L. Ishizuka (Producer/Writer) and Robert A. Nakamura (Director/Writer) with an original music score composed and performed by Dan Kuramoto.